从命 從命

从命從命 in English

cóng mìng
to obey an order / to comply / to do sb's bidding / to do as requested

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 从 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 从 Show the animation
Le caractère 從 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 命 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 命 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 從, the traditional character: 从 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 汤姆服从命令。

    Tom follows orders.

  • 那我就恭敬不如从命啦。

    Then I'll work on the principle that deference is no substitute for obedience.

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